Thanks for the background guys.
To echo/further what Ishan and Erick said above, my own ignorance of
Windows scripting is what initially brought this to mind. I've had a
handful of JIRA's grind to a halt because of this recently.
I've created SOLR-11206
Ditto the pain of working both with the *nix script and the Windows
scripts. I don't have ready access to Windows machines either so have
to rely on the kindness of people who do when I need to modify the
scripts. I think it was one of those things that started out with a
simple script and each
There's https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7871 which has some
relevant discussion in these painpoints.
Frankly, working with solr.cmd has been one of the toughest things I've had
to deal with in last few months (thanks to my inability to work with
Windows script).
On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at
Hi Jason,
The history behind the scripts is that they were simpler, and were done to
make things easier for end users. Not sure if you have worked with the
'bootstrap' part of the command that predated these scripts, but the
intention was to move away from those.
There was an intention to move
